On Saturday, May 4, 2013 4:12:49 AM UTC-5, timh wrote: > > Signal/Noise isn't too bad here . > > I hate to think what SO will look like, with all the PHP people asking how > they can insert data into the datastore with GQL ;-) > > IMO, the signal/noise ratio of SO's GAE tag is already very low, trending towards complete garbage. A majority of questions are either completely irrelevant (for instance, discussing the G+ or link shortener API instead of GAE-specific APIs), already covered by the official documentation or GitHub example code, or basically asking for someone else to write the code for them.
I stay in this group, much higher S/N ratio and we see official responses from Google much more :-) On Monday, May 6, 2013 1:44:09 AM UTC-5, Chris Ramsdale wrote: > > - do folks find this page, and its content, useful? > Yes (By the way, any chance you could unlock the new PHP runtime? Please?) On Monday, May 6, 2013 1:44:09 AM UTC-5, Chris Ramsdale wrote: > > - does it change whether or not you would use the platform or a > particular feature? > > It helps with planning and writing a roadmap. I can't guarantee that I'd use a specific feature, even if it was on the roadmap. Even then, there's no guarantee that roadmap features will be released into production (i.e. Conversion API). On Monday, May 6, 2013 1:44:09 AM UTC-5, Chris Ramsdale wrote: > > - is there a more desirable channel for communicating this information? > > You could put the information up on Gopher ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) ) for all I care. Just that there's a standard, official place to get news. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL My Go side project: http://invalidmail.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
